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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100670879835

ISBN-139780670879830

eBay Product ID (ePID)587663

Product Key Features

Book TitleOrbiting the Giant Hairball : a Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMotivational, Management, Creativity

Publication Year1998

IllustratorYes

GenreSelf-Help, Business & Economics

AuthorGordon Mackenzie

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length7.2 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-052991

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal650.1

Grade ToUP

SynopsisCreativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit--to a mode of dreaming, daring and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares the story of his own professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius. Originally self-published and already a business "cult classic", this personally empowering and entertaining look at the intersection between human creativity and the bottom line is now widely available to bookstores. It will be a must-read for any manager looking for new ways to invigorate employees, and any professional who wants to achieve his or her best, most self-expressive, most creative and fulfilling work., Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy and rise to orbit--to a mode of dreaming, daring and doing above and beyond the rubber-stamp confines of the administrative mind-set. In his deeply funny book, exuberantly illustrated in full color, he shares the story of his own professional evolution, together with lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius. Originally self-published and already a business "cult classic," this personally empowering and entertaining look at the intersection between human creativity and the bottom line is now widely available to bookstores. It will be a must-read for any manager looking for new ways to invigorate employees, and any professional who wants to achieve his or her best, most self-expressive, most creative and fulfilling work.

LC Classification NumberN6537.M3136A2 1998